Peter sighed. "Do you want me to apologise for that, Sirius? Because I won't. Yes, you convinced yourself. Don't you think that it's a bit curious that you are in love with James and Remus, you're two best friends? Don't you feel that it's a bit too coincidental that it started to happen when James got involved with Lily and when Remus stopped talking to you because of that prank with Snape?" he asked. "It would be a lot easier for me to go along and just say what you want to hear, especially right now since we're still on shaky grounds, but believe it or not, I care about you and I want you to see the truth. You love them, you are terrified of losing them, you will do anything to hold onto them but you're not in love with them. There's a difference."
He looked at Sirius, knowing that his friend wouldn't be happy with him but he was done lying to them. "Your brother doesn't hate you. I'm pretty sure that he does hate James, but what does it matter? Seriously what does it matter? They have their wives and lovers but they also have their friends. We don't have to be one big happy commune. We are four friends who are growing up and finding other people. And really of the two of us, I should be worried, not you. You could find that person if you just stopped living in the past and looked ahead, because you are who you are, because people love you. You just have to stop putting up walls. You're not like me, the one who betrayed the Potter, the evil one. Hell, even before all of that, I couldn't get people to look at me, so stop with pretending that you couldn't have what they have with a person you are really in love with."
He snorted. "Sirius, I want you to move on. I want you to realize that we aren't fifteen or in school. I want you to realize that you need to stop pretending that we can have sleepovers like children. Most of all, I want you to realize that you can be happy if you only let yourself be."